Caveats with parallel collections
Parallel collections were designed to provide a programming API similar to sequential Scala collections. Every sequential collection has a parallel counterpart and most operations have the same signature in both sequential and parallel collections. Still, there are some caveats when using parallel collections, and we will study them in this section.
Non-parallelizable collections
Parallel collections use splitters, represented with the Splitter[T] type, in order to provide parallel operations. A splitter is a more advanced form of an iterator; in addition to the iterator's next and hasNext methods, splitters define the split method, which divides the splitter S into a sequence of splitters that traverse parts of ...
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